DRIVER GAOLED.
NEGLIGENT MOTORIST.
INJURY CAUSED TO GIRL
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CiriUSTCIIURCH, this day.
In the Supreme Court, Samuel Donald Halliday was convicted on a charge of negligently driving a motor car so as to cause "bodily harm. He was sentenced to 12 months and disqualified from obtaining, a I*loollxo for three years. Counsel for the prisoner said that previously Halliday had been charged with being drunk' in the charge of n car in the same set of circumstances as gave rise to the present charge. The magistrate had sentenced him to hard labour for two v . . After serving that sentence Halliday had to serve another for theft, and was released last month. Then he was rearrested to answer the present charge. Counsel submitted his only criminality was intoxication while in charge of a car. and for that he had paid a substantial penalty"; In reply lo the judge, the Crown Prosecutor said the girl injured in the accident was in hospital for some time. The judge said there were no mitigating circumstances.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 8
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